Word: frigid
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...that made Yardlings George R. Hooper and John M. Alcorn dance gleefully into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic at Revere Beach. They won the bet, but admit ruefully that they are not forming any "Polar Bear Club." "Once is enough," the two Weld Hall dwellers, to whom temperatures in the lower registers are nothing new, chorused in shivering unison...
Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man-Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order...
...most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured mercilessly, time after time baffling the listener's desire to discover in it any intelligible contours, whether harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic. But the Violin Concerto subdues the usually frigid and austere atonal system, and makes it the medium for an instantly moving masterpiece, one that will stand as a monument to a great composer who died before his time...
...Napoleon, whose fastest unit was the horse, reached Moscow on Sept. 14. This week, on Sept. 14, Hitler, whose fastest unit is the plane, was fighting Russian counter-attacks some 200 miles from Moscow. Napoleon stayed in Moscow for nearly six weeks, suffered cold and defeat in the frigid Russian winter, was back in Paris by Dec. 18. Later Napoleon said...
...Italian disciples of "the new order" were quite definitely having sabotage trouble as well as other kinds. While they retreated from the Greeks through Albanian mountain passes around Corizza, the Italians were sniped and raided by rebel Albanian guerrillas. Many little groups of four or five guerrillas in the frigid, snowy hills were said to add up to a large force commanded by former Albanian Major Ali Mehmed, who fled his native country when the Italians took over in 1938. Major Mehmed was reported to have returned to Albania quite recently by parachute from an unidentified plane...